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Patrick Ord

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Born

in San Diego, The United States

Website

http://henrymaddox.com

Twitter

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Genre

Fiction, Thriller, Business

Influences

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, [a:Ay ...more

Member Since

March 2013

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People who seek to profit at the expense of others have never had it so good. Tools exist in today’s digital economy that allow the knowledgeable and motivated to manipulate and even enslave the less sophisticated. Patrick Ord was so concerned about educating others to these dangers that he wrote THE CURTAIN.

Though the content of THE CURTAIN could have been conveyed in a nonfiction format, Ord wanted to reach a broader audience. He thus wrote a story that allows the reader to digest sophisticated and destructive insider business strategies while being engrossed in an entertaining plot. Ord’s formula has proven to be an outstanding success. Readers as diverse as grandmothers to Chief Technology Officers and teenagers to PHDs have all provid ...more

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THE CURTAIN Recommendation: Roland Robison

I’m always gratified to hear from people who use The Curtain as a teaching tool. Such is the case with Roland and Deanne Robison. Roland sent me a recent email and told me the following (posted with his permission):

“My wife and I have used The Curtain as a teaching tool within our family, with our friends, within our church community, and within our ministry to our local prison.

“I’ve b

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“Entertainment was no longer about story telling; it was story selling -- social engineering.”
― Patrick Ord, The Curtain

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“The ladder showed a listing of different lifestyles, which were prioritized based on market potential and profitability. ...The more desirable demographics were the least commitment oriented. The most highly valued demographic was the single adult with no children.”
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“...If a vibrant, productive capitalism is to survive, virtue must temper self-interest.”
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